Foundation complete

The foundation is complete! As you'll see below we went out there today to walk the new foundation and take some photos. It's all very exciting, but we had to whip out a measuring tape. When just looking at a foundation it all looks so SMALL, but it's deceptive and after measuring and comparing with the plans, looks like everything's about the right size. Weird!

Here's our front steps. They sprayed the bottom and some of the brick around the base, presumably to indicate where the dirt has to be backfilled to.

Some kind of drainage solution from the foundation. I assume these will be buried in the end.

A view of all the supports in the center of the house.

They're placed gravel into where the garage will be.

This is our well pump house, tipped over so they can replace the pump with a new one. There was nothing wrong with the old one, but we wanted to make sure it could support a house of this size. And it was old. And we like having running water and stuff.

Better view of the entire foundation. This is the 'high side' of the house.

Whoa. They dropped off the trusses up at the front of the property and it looks like one whole pile slipped off the rest. Bad delivery guy!

We're going to send photos of this to the builder, who I assume hasn't seen what they did yet. Some of this lumber looks like it's being bent pretty good, I'm not sure if it'll be usable or if they'll have to get some new trusses out there to replace them.

Hello, foundation!

The masons are hard at work this week, laying brick and block onto the concrete poured footings. You can see the start of the shape of the building. The bricks, which appeared to be more of a red color than we thought, are apparently only red on the sides that are not visible to the outside. So the outside wall appears to be the more 'sandy' color that we like.

One of the corners is where the master bedroom will be and we were a little shocked by how small that space seems to be within the foundation. It always amazes me how deceptive that can be, how an area laid out on the ground seems tiny, but when you erect walls around it, it seems spacious.

Anyway, this will be the last update for over a week since we're heading to Orlando for a much needed vacation next week. By the time we come back we expect they will be done with the foundation and moving onto framing. Exciting!

Footers poured!

Looks like concrete footers have been poured. You can see them in the photos above, inset into the dirt channels that they dug. I'm sure the layout of all this makes sense to someone.

You can also see the bricks and blocks that have been delivered and unceremoniously dumped all over the freakin place. The cement blocks will form the actual support for the house while the bricks form a nice 'curtain' wall around the exterior of the foundation so you won't see the blocks.

My assumption is that they're waiting for the cement to cure at this point before proceeding. Next photos will likely be next week at some point before we take off for Disney!